County News

South Lyon is to have a pickle factory, too. The Ypsilanti sanitarium is now conducted by J. M. Chidister. A new $600 iron bridge will be built over the river at East Manchester. Floyd Force, South Lyon, feil froui a cherry tree and broke both arms at the wrists. Newman Granger, one of Manchester's prominent business men, died Ia6t Tuesday after a lingering illness. A. A. Buckalew, an old resident of Webster, feil from a hay loft one day iast week, breaking his collar bone. Joe üennison, of Milan had his arm broken twice, during a slight disagreetuent with a bad-tempered stallion he owns. Geo. Keibier, of Saline, while returning from Ann Arbor, one day last week on his bicycle was run into by a horse and buggy and badly bruised. Saline has a "kid drum corps," and the Observer calis their music "noise." It would be in order now for the boys to serenade theeditor of that sheet. George Gove furnished the paint and pent thirty-two days putting it on the Mbnroe court house, and received $90 for the job. George will never start a bank at that rate. Last week, while riding a binder on her husband's farm near Brighton, Mrs. John Morgan was thrown to the ground in front of the knives and dangerously eut by them. The death of James L. Mitchell, which occurred in Lima last week, calis up reflections of early territorial times. Mr. Mitchell's mother was a daughter of Samuel Clements, sr, who settled in Lima township in 1S25. Miss Clements married the late Thomas Mitchell, of Lima. James L. was theonly child. His mother died many years ago ; his father died in 1802 on the farm where James L. has eince lived. James L. graduated from the Michigan University about 1858, since which time he has lived on the old farm most of the time. He found a wife while teaching school in Ohio, who survives him. He left two sons who have grown to manhood. Mr. Mitchell has always worked with the ftepublican party. Hilan. Postmaster Babcock is on the sick list. The Babcock house is in running order again with a bran new landlord. Vercelius & Babcock are succeeded by Hitchcock & Babcock as saloon keepers. The Presbyterian excursión to Whitmore Lake on Friclay last captured the band for the occasion and are happy. Vercelius & Babcock waived examination on the 24th and were bound over to the circuit, for selling liquor without bonds or paying the regulation fee. Ezekiel Johnson, of Augusta, after six years of persistent work has been granted a pension for heart disease, which disability was apparent to all excepting examining boards. A new drain, now being constructed in the western portion of the village, is expected to flood the Saline. Towns below beware ! Milan has but one legal saloon and must get rid of its surplus fluid. A pensioner at Milan made an application for an increase on account of too low a rating. He showed by affidavits that his disability was as great as the loss of a limb. But his application was rejected because his disability was no greater than when last increased, although he draws less than half that allowed by law for the disability proved. The Milan village council are taking upon themselves considerable authoriity. Hitchcock & Babcock, saloon men, xecuted a bond in accordance with the provisions of the law ; but because one of the sureties would not be bulldozed into coming before that august body and again swearing to his responsibility the bond was rejected. Webster. Farmers are much disappointed in the wheat erop this year. Mr. Moore, of lonia, is the guest of Rev. Mr. Butler a few days. The Congregational Sunday school will have a picnic in a week or two. Mr?. Willit8andtwo children of Jackson, who are spending the summer in Delhi, Sundayed with Mr. Kenny's people. Miss Dunn, from Ann Arbor, is visiting her eister, Mrs. Backus. Mr. Chaffee, who has spent the summer with Mr. Kenny, started for his home in California this week. Ctaelsea. Henry Gilbert has moved to Ann Arbor. April showers were numerous and refreshing last Sunday. H. M. Woods and Geo. 1'. Glazier are on a business trip to Cincinnati. Eev. Christian Haag, pastor elect of the Lutheran church, will enter upon his duties in two or three weeks. The cottages at Cavanaugh Lake are nearly all occupied. Hon. A. J. Sawyer and family, and County clerk Howlett and family are among the campers. No services ateither Baptist or Methodist churches last Sunday. The Congregational church was crowded to hear their new pastor, Rev. J. E. Reilly. ■ Rev. G. Robertus preached his farewell sermón at the Lutheran church last Sunday. Mrs. Dr. Robertson, of Battle Creek, and Mrs. McAlister, of Detroit, are visitinK their parents, Mr. and Mr. A. Durand. A very interesting reception was held at the residence of Dea. F. W. Hatcb, Wednesday evening, its object being to make the acquaintance of the new pastor, Rev. J. Edward Reilly, and give him a hearty welcome. It was a success. A pall of sadness feil like the shadow of a cloud upon the spirits of our older citizens on Tuesday, when the remains of Mrs. W. C. Wines were brought to the home of her childhood for burial. Mrs. Wines was the daughter of Mr. Cyrus Beckwith, who opened a dry goods store in Ann Arbor in 1824, and located the first farm in Sylvan in 1830. On this farm, now owned and occupied by Mr. Frank Sweetland, Mrs. Wines, nee Sarah J. Beckwith, was bom Feb. 13,1846. Miss Beckwitb, in early life, was a sprightly, enterprising girl, fond of education and music, and, at an early age, became organist in the Congregational church ut Chelsea, which situation she occupied several years, becoming mean time a member of the church. Her first marriage was to Mr. Henry Pratt, of Sylvan, who died in 1874, leaving her with two children. In 1877 she married Mr. Wines. In 1879 they moved to Detroit, and in 1884 to Rochester, where she died July 21, 1888, of peritonitis, after a short illness, leaving three children, two by her first husband and one by Mr. Wines. Tpsilanti. Miss Nora Babbitt is attending the „summer school at Alma. The Episcopal and Congregational pulpits are still without pastors. The masonic fraternity are furnishing an elegant hall in the new Savings Bank building. Mrs.Smith Saunders, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Jenness, of this city. Miss Nan Sewell, of the post office force? is spending her two weeks vacation in East Saginaw. Mr. Dan Spencer, of Chicago, once a genuino Ypsilantian, is making a short visit among oíd friends. Rev. M. W. Fairfield and wife have departed for the northern part of the state, to spend the summer. Prof. Lodeman, of the Normal, has charge of the department of Germán at the Bay View summer assemblage. C. A. Nims has contracted to get a mineral well in working order at Alma, where Doctor Hale has charge of the Sanitarium. A pleasant party of twenty two ladies and gentlemen held a picnic sociable at Mr. and Mr3. B. G. Crookston's in Ann Arbor, last Friday. About 30 of our oldest yoters who supported old Tippecanoe in '40, have signified their intention of doinglikewise for the old veteran's grandson. Prof. J. Shepard, who has been our efficiënt high school instructor in chemistry, has accepted a similar position in the Agricultural college of Dakota. Doctor Owen has made a seasonable proposition to the common council to supply the west side with water and guaranteed the price to private consumere to be not greater than that charged in Ann Arbor. The city fathers will medítate over the subject. Whltmore Lake. F. M. Smith, of the Clifton, visited Jackson recently. H. J. Brown and family, of Ann Arbor, visited the Lake this week. Mrs. Drake and daughters, of Ann Arbor, are at the Jackson house. Mr. Hawkins of the Saline Observer, and ladies visited the Lake Saturday. . E. Popkins, of the First National bank, Ann Arbor, enjoyed himself here lately. Alvin Wilsey captured a 5-pound bass in this lake, Monda}1. Therefore he talketh. Mrs. Mary Markey and children, of Fort Wayne, Ind., are with their father, Ed. Roper. Gov. Ashley, together with some of his relatives and friends, visited Whitmore Friday. Mr. Kyer, of Ann Arbor, has spent a part of the week with his family at the Lake Side View. The Clifton house yacht was wrecked by unskillful management during a wind storm, Sunday. Last season, Mrs. Ellen Roe scattered some seeds of the pink water lily upon the water at Lily bend, and now one of this species is found occasionally. Evidently on the eve of this writing a small group of young ladies and gentlemen are enjoying themselves. Your scribe walks to his home, his head towering a trifle above everybody's else, is twice cut off (?) on strings stretched across the walk, and as he sits at his table, he hears the report of the jumbo fire-cracker, the charming (?) sound of the tin horn and the chime (?) of the old school house bell. The conductor's excursión from Jackson and Port Huron, last Sunday, was not so large as it was expected to be, although over 1,000 people joined it. Three trains of ten coaches each carried the excursionista. The rain simply poured down and the farmer sat in on hisotne wishing the company good luck, but himself better, for this is the first rain that we have enjoyed this summer. Despite the rain and the "duckings" the company seemed to enjoy themselves. The Clifton House guests are : Mrs. L. M. Smith and three daughters, Miss Mary Ward, A. J. Dixon, A. C. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Averill, Jackson ; Miss Mary and Hattie Saunders, Miss E. A. Ril), Detroit; Mrs. N. Drake and two daughters, Harry Tompkins, Ed. Hudson, Mrs. James Robieon, Mrs. O. M. Martin, Fred Eberbach. Will Hatch, wife and daughter, Ann Arbor ; F. W. Ward, Frank E. Foley, Chicago ; Mrs. Geo. Simons, Miss Minnie and John Simons, Cleveland. The Lake House Register.- Dr. W. F. Breakey and family, Carrie Owens W. C. Stevens and family, Nellie Ames, Mrs. Dell Tyler, Mrs. John Moore, Mrs. G. W. Henion, Dr. and Mrs. Jackson, E. B. Hall and family, L. Hall and wife, Mrs. Israel Half, Ann Arbor; Geo. A. Woodford and family, Dr. A. W. Walsh and family, Austin LaDue and famfly, F. O. and C. G. Waldo, M. D. Graves, Detroit ; E. K. Bennett, Plymouth ; Burt H. Cumstalk, Ypsilanti; W. C. Smith, M. D. llfcacb, E. Bretherton, Chicago; W. A. Gregg, J. E. Winney, C. H. Bennett, James Gallagher, J. R. Reynolds, Jackson ; James Henning ;and family, Williamston; Claude Denman; W. G. Greene, Ann Arbor.